![]() LGBTQ individuals and leaders-not themselves queer, Black, or trans-and many LGBTQ organizations are finally grappling with the violent realities and material privations queer Black trans people regularly suffer, along with whether and how to center queer Black trans people and their liberation as key to LGBTQ politics.ĭespite the path the Black Pride 4’s 2017 Columbus Pride protest has forged inside LGBTQ communities, it has not generated widespread academic engagement-yet. Those arrested became famous as the “Black Pride 4.”įive years later, the Black Pride 4’s protest-along with pride-timed and other protests elsewhere, and marches, conversations, and community work in their wake-has precipitated a reckoning in Columbus’s and other LGBTQ communities across the nation. Nothing like those seven bullet minutes passed before Columbus police swiftly and forcefully stopped the protest, arresting “four Black queer and trans folks” on various charges. The plan was to “silently block the parade for seven minutes to hold space for Black and brown queer and trans people.” The seven minutes corresponded to the seven bullets police officer Jeronimo Yanez fired at Philando Castile at close range, killing him, an act Yanez was charged for, but acquitted of the day before Columbus Pride. ![]() On June 17, 2017, a small group of queer Black trans protesters and allies blocked my hometown’s pride parade.
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